Richmond BC, Canada #richmondartgallerybc
Are you ready to enter the world of art markets and craft sales? Join us for an informative session covering different types of markets, understanding the right ones for your business, planning your table, payment systems, engaging customers and other top tips for first-timers.
Free Admission. RSVP requested to culture@richmond.ca
About the Presenters:
Ilena Cramer (she/them) lives and creates on the stolen, ancestral, and occupied, traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Səl̓ílwətaʔ, and Skwxwú7mesh Nations of the Coast Salish Peoples (Vancouver, BC). A multi-disciplinary artist, teacher, writer, and designer, she has been a lifelong student of ceramics and clay. She studied ballet in Russia during Perestroika, received an arts degree in Alaska, made pottery in the mountains of Mexico, and created many plays around the world. Her current practice finds local landscape, environment and materials encountering myth, story and history.
Sophie Slater is an arts administrator, market organizer, and textiles artist from the United Kingdom. Based in the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in Vancouver, her artistic practice explores natural dyeing, quilting, and basketry. With five years experience organizing craft fairs, and working as Operations Manager at artist-run centre Western Front since 2023, Sophie leads Toque Craft Fair every December. Toque Craft Fair is an annual holiday market and community fundraiser benefiting Western Front, a non-profit artist-run centre in Mount Pleasant. Welcoming over 5,000 visitors each year, Toque features a curated selection of artists, craftspeople, and designers—showcasing the very best of what’s made in BC. Spread across two floors of Western Front’s heritage building, the fair invites you to shop from over sixty artists and connect with the creativity rooted in our community.
Art at Work is a series of professional development workshops designed for artists and arts organizations practicing in any artistic medium. The program is presented in partnership by the City of Richmond Arts Services, Richmond Public Art, and Richmond Art Gallery. The program is intended to provide artists and arts organizations with knowledge and skills relevant to pursuing a professional practice in the field of public art, performance, visual art and community arts.
Art at Work offers workshops from February through October each year. To view an archive and videos of past workshops, click here.
